Colorado mountains could get several inches of fresh snow the next few days

With Mount Evans in the background, a couple walks past Ferril Lake at City Park on Wednesday. (Andy Cross, The Denver Post)

Steamboat Springs was expected to pick up 6 inches of snow from a fast-moving Pacific storm Wednesday night and Thursday morning, as snow finally returned to the Colorado forecast.

Lighter amounts were expected in Aspen, Grand and Summit counties.

A mix of rain and snow moved into the northern mountains Wednesday evening. Sporadic precipitation could linger into the weekend before a more powerful storm moves in Saturday night, forecasters said.

Dry weather, however, returns to the mountains next week.

Snowpack statewide is 41 percent of the state's 30-year average, but just 39 percent and 37 percent, respectively, in the ski-rich Colorado River basin and the shared basin of the Yampa and White rivers.

Exceptional warmth in Denver this week is expected to give way to bitter cold this weekend. The high in Denver Wednesday was 69 degrees, 3 degrees short of the record high for the date set in 1956.

The city is expected to top out at 52 Thursday with a 20 percent chance of rain Thursday night. After a forecast high of 47 on Friday, Denver could reach only 39 on Saturday with a 30 percent chance of snow during the day and 50 percent Saturday night, when the low is expected to fall to 17 degrees.

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Forecasters expect the high on Sunday to reach just 25 with an evening low of 12 degrees. Temperatures could warm only to the mid-30s early next week. High temperatures this week are typically in the mid-40s.

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